Articles filed under Illinois
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Village mayor's aide sentenced on tax chargesSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - EAST ST. LOUIS -- A former assistant to the mayor of a southwestern Illinois village has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for evading income taxes and mis...
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Three resign, fired at Illinois nursing homeSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - OTTAWA -- Three officials at the LaSalle County Nursing Home have been fired or have resigned. The nursing home has faced two fines for violations stemming from the mole...
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Law used to indict Blagojevich challenged as vagueSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Among the corruption charges faced by former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is a statute of just 28 words with enough pop to send big names to prison for corruption, but ...
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NAACP seeks police changes after man killedSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The NAACP is renewing a push for federal standards on police use of force after the shooting of an unarmed black man by two white police officers inside a church while d...
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Deputy ruled justified in fatal shootingSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - ROCK ISLAND -- The Rock Island County State's Attorney Office says a Rock Island County sheriff's deputy who fatally wounded a Taylor Ridge man on Aug. 3 was justified i...
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Rock Falls man pleads guilty to wife's murderSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - MORRISON -- Whiteside County authorities say a Rock Falls man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the strangling of his on Labor Day of last year. Whiteside Co...
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Frustrated Shimkus downplays leaving Obama speechSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - COLLINSVILLE -- A spokesman for a Republican congressman from southwestern Illinois says the lawmaker walked out on President Barack Obama's health-care speech to Congre...
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Official: Upgrading rail service will come slowlySep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - The Obama administration's top railroad official says Americans shouldn't expect networks of super-fast trains after federal money already set aside for high-speed rail ...
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U. of I. trustees take up admissions problemsSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - URBANA -- University of Illinois trustees elected Chicago businessman Christopher Kennedy to be there new chairman on Tuesday, as they set about trying to clean up an ad...
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Thousands of Ill. state workers get hefty pensionsSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Almost 4,000 retired government workers in Illinois get pensions of at least $100,000 per year, and more than half of those have collected more than $1 million each sinc...